Bypass 'verify_controversy' page when downloading youtube video

[rudolphos]

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[download] Downloading video 2 of 2
[youtube] videoid: Downloading webpage
[youtube] videoid: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

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I can't download videos that are behind 'controversy confirmation' page

This would be important considering the recent censorship on google/youtube.

bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/google-rolls-out-its-biggest-crackdown-on-youtube-hate-speech

Starting on Thursday, Google will police YouTube like it never has before, adding warnings and disabling advertising on videos that the company determines crosses its new threshold for offensive content.

[Hrxn]

Is this really happening?

[CeruleanSky]

To add what the above stated, I just want to point out that the view count data is still available in a url parameter.

I erased them below, but here is a small sample. I think just about all the censored info about the video is still available.

If you add --dump-pages the base64 encoded data after
[youtube] : Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Dumping request to https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info

Includes 66 url parameters still populated and available, a small sample is below:

&short_view_count_text=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&dashmpd=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&keywords=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&default_audio_track_index=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&loudness=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&timestamp=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&iurlsd=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&csn=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&video_id=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&cver=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&ttsurl=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&cos=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&thumbnail_url=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&iurlmq=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]
&view_count=[XXX-REMOVED-FOR-PRIVACY-XXX]

So the data is still all there.